Vaccum appliance attachment for cutting
OwnerFrank Joeph Carusoinventor
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Abstract
A cutting attachment 1 is mounted to the distal end of a vacuum hose extending from a conventional vacuum appliance. The vacuum appliance is operated, causing vacuum pressure and resultant suction through the vacuum hose to occur. The motor assembly 3 of the cutting attachment 1 is activated to cause the blade assembly 9 to rotate. The user then holds the cutting attachment 1 and manipulates it by hand in order to pass the rotating blade assembly 9 over and against a material or article, such as a plant, to be cut. As pieces are cut and severed they are immediately pulled into the nozzle opening 11 by the suction force created by the vacuum appliance.
Claims6
A cutting attachment for use with a vacuum appliance, said attachment comprising
- a housing having a generally hollow interior;
- a motor assembly;
- a drive assembly coupled to said motor assembly;
- a blade assembly rotationally mounted to said housing and adapted to be rotationally driven by said drive assembly;
- an open nozzle end at a distal end of said housing and in communication with the interior of said housing;
- and
- an open hose attachment end at a proximal end of said housing and in communication with the interior of said housing, and being adapted to attach to a hose of a vacuum appliance such that when said vacuum appliance is operated suction force is communicated to said nozzle end.
A method of cutting and collecting debris, said method comprising
- providing an attachment to the end of a vacuum hose, said attachment comprising a moving blade assembly;
- operating a vacuum appliance to produce suction force through said vacuum hose;
- rotating said blade assembly to cut material;
- and
- collecting pieces of the cut material by suction force into said vacuum hose.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.